Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] docs: submitting-patches: Add Sponsored-by tag to give credits to who sponsored the patch

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Aug 17 2023 - 20:22:37 EST


On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 02:23:48AM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Just adding one data point here, without judging on the merits of this
> proposal. I've been requested previously by customers to increase their
> visibility in the kernel development statistics, and the way we found to
> do so was to sign-off patches with
>
> Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+customer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> (where "customer" is to be replaced with the customer name).

I quite like Sponsored-by: but yet another approach could be the
same as that used by those of us whole use personal email addresses
while being employed by someone. So my SoB is:

Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

but you might have (eg)

Laurent Pinchard (Coca-Cola) <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

and then when working for another sponsor:

Laurent Pinchard (Ford) <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>